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Quotes About Society

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~ Hedy Lamarr
War is not women's history.
~ Virginia Woolf
Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
~ James Larkin
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
~ Marina Warner
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
~ Christian Louboutin
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
~ C. S. Lewis
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
~ Sandra Bernhard
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
~ T. S. Eliot
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
~ Jane Curtin
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~ Judith Martin
The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.
~ Jim DeRogatis
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
~ Romola Garai
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
~ Pearl S. Buck
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
~ Tammy Bruce
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
~ Edith Head
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
~ Warren Farrell
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.
~ Shirley Williams